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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NetWare + NCSA TCP/IP (or CUTCP) without using ECONFIGed NET$OS
Keywords: NetWare, TCP/IP, NCSA, IBM-PC
Message-ID: <13965@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:38:28 GMT
References: <862@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <862@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> qiming@earth.unsw.oz (Qiming Zhou) writes:
>
>Here is the problem. After I have modified NET$OS.EXE using ECONFIG, I
>can no longer communicate with other Novell servers on the campus (there
>are about 15 of them). After reading through the document I relise that
>every server has to be ECONFIGed and every workstation has to run packet
>driver - this is totally out of question here, unfortunately.
>
>Then I started to look through some old news and documents and discovered
>someone else also had similar problem and it appears that there are some
>solutions for this, but I do not have the clue where can I get help.
>
>Could anyone help me to solve the problem? Is there any packet drivers
>that support both 802.3 and 8137 packet protocols? Any information is
>greatly appreciated.
>

The current packet drivers from Clarkson (release 7) support either DIX or
802.3 via a command line switch.

I was always under the impression that if you mixed other 802.3 traffic with
802.3/Netware on the same wire that you would/could crash Novell servers, thus
the need to run Netware in DIX. Something to do with Novell's weird handling of
the 802.2 header (and how their stack handled it).

You could always stick another card in your server, configure one card for DIX,
the other for 802.3 and connect the 802.3 side to your other novell servers.


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